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... to associate themselves with the human race. Even now, I can close my eyes and imagine his torrent of underwater anger, followed by the land version of this anger. It took me a while to connect the dots, but R is exactly what you'd expect him to be given his background. If you've ever met a physical training instructor in any army, you'll know what I mean. Add years in Afghanistan to that, and you get an angry man with a streak of cunning sadism. Now is this a bad thing ...

Woke up with Dimi at around 8.30am...the guys were heading out to Tulum and Akumal for the day and I had decided to give it a miss as I had already been 11 weeks ago. Chilled out in bed watching How I Met Your Mother for a couple of hours and then went with David to the bus station - sniff another goodbye! Felt a bit strange to ...

... and the main pyramid which has exactly 364 steps (for days in the year), on the solstice the sun shines/shadows perfectly to form a pyramid with a beam of light which ends at a snake head (symbol for life). It also has weird sound reflects nice. A loud noise would be reflected louder - when you clap a noise comes back which sounds like a bullet ricochet (the noise it makes in the movies). It all has been restored (still going) otherwise it would look a ...

In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy the natural beauty around me. I'm going to sit on the beach under an thatched umbrella and enjoy watching the birds fly by in formation. I'm going to take a boat tour of the grounds and I'm going to look for crocodiles.

And I'm going to continue to think about the big questions. Because that's what I enjoy, five-star place or not.

We had a great day diving! Our local guide, Orlando, was sick but he sent a fill-in, Mario. We dove with Mario one day last year as well--he was the one who found us a splendid toadfish. All 3 dives today were relatively shallow (no more than 60 feet) drift dives and all of them were very, very good dives.

Dive #1 Paseo del Cedral This was the best dive of the day for a number ...